Once more, this blog is visited by Alan Davies. Last time, he was a corrupt quiz game host who got caught up in a murder.…
CIPC #275: Fritz Leiber, The 64-square madhouse
The 64-square madhouse, a short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1962 in IF worlds of science fiction. It tells of the first super chess…
CIPC #274: Mystery Science Theater 3000 S6 E21, The beast of Yucca Flats
I am quite used to it and hardly notice any more, but Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a really weird show. The premise is that…
CIPC #273: Murun Buchstansangur, Problems Problems
I have seen quite a few cartoons for this blog, but never something quite like Murun Buchstansangur. Most cartoons are about kids, anthropomorphised animals, or…
CIPC #272: Lidl ad
If you are trying to sell toys in the low countries, a lot of your revenue comes in the weeks before Saint Nicholas’ day. So,…
CIPC #271: Sable maze: Norwich Caves
Ah, hidden object games! If you have the licence to slap a popular title on a game but you haven’t got the game to slap…
CIPC #268: The invisible boy
From the title The invisible boy, you might guess that this is some fifties b-movie, perhaps like The day the Earth stood still or The…
CIPC #266: Agent Provocateur ad
Intuitively, one would perhaps expect chess themes to mainly occur in advertisement for brainy things, like insurance, or computers, or stocks or something. But it…
CIPC #265: Family ties S1 E17, French lessons
When we talk about TV series on this blog, someone has usually been murdered. There is probably a cop in a foul mood around, accompanied…
CIPC #264: Album covers
A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about chess themed book covers, which greatly endangered my faith in humanity. A later post about…